The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the state of Maryland, and Montgomery County have teamed to establish the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a $10 million public-private center for accelerating adoption of cybersecurity tools and technologies.
22 February 2012
The Financial Information Exchange, a Beijing-based financial service platform owned by Xinhua News Agency, has launched a global network based on quantum communication technology to improve security and efficiency.
22 February 2012
A Zeusbot/Spyeye variant is using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network architecture, rather than a simple bot to command-and-control (C&C) server system, making the botnet much harder to take down.
22 February 2012
A tax preparer based in Memphis, Tenn., is accused of throwing out thousands of tax documents containing customers’ personal information, including driver's license and social security numbers, in dumpsters at one of its offices, according to Memphis police.
22 February 2012
The director of the Iranian passive defense organization, brigadier general Gholamreza Jalali, has been discussing a new Iranian cyber army.
22 February 2012
A new survey on attitudes towards passwords indicates an apparent contradiction: most people want stricter password security policies, but don’t bother changing their own default passwords.
22 February 2012
Apple has agreed settlement terms for the ultimate self-inflicted DoS: the ‘death grip’ that can cause the iPhone 4 to drop its signal.
22 February 2012
There are likely to be an increased number of information security audits this year in response to the explosion of data breaches last year, according to Ernst & Young’s Privacy Trends 2012 report.
21 February 2012
While billed as a bipartisan piece of legislation, the Cybersecurity Act, recently introduced in the US Senate, is facing an alternative bill sponsored by heavy hitter John McCain (R-Ariz.) and other Republican senators.
21 February 2012
Google and other online companies have been able to bypass the default privacy setting on Apple’s Safari web browser designed to prevent tracking of users' web surfing habits.
21 February 2012